Kandori and Saito are such a great duo. Kandori brings the grappling and ability to tear your arms off while Saito brings the stiffness and ability to kick your spleen through the uprights. This was pretty awesome. At times it felt like a WAR tag at warp speed, especially the first five minutes. Lots of nastiness and ill will and two teams who do not care for each other. Saito and Kansai were throwing sledgehammer kicks, everyone was throwing hard slaps, there were potato shots all over the place, everything felt like a big old scrap. My favourite part was when Kandori started bullying Scorpion with a series of those Kawada chops, where she'd chop her to the mat and instantly drag her back upright by the wrist, then when Scorpion tried to counter with a single-leg Kandori just stomped on her face. Scorpion was super fun in general. I don't even know if I'd seen her before. She wasn't as vicious as the others and was certainly the underdog compared to her partner, but she made up for it with her flying and tricky lucha offence, the best being a killer plancha where she used Dynamite as a launchpad. This is also about as enjoyable as I've found Kansai in a long time. I'm not a fan of hers at all and for every moment where she'll do something amazing - like plaster someone with a fifty-yarder - she'll ruin it by doing something equally annoying - like drop all pretense of selling and just transition to offence out of nowhere. There were one or two instances verging on the latter here, but she largely worked as a believable dominant force and on the whole we got more of the former. Who knows, maybe I'm coming round to her a bit. Anyways, this was badass.
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